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1 link of bore tubing adds __________ of dead space.

The I:E ratio may be altered by manipulating any of the controls except:

At a constant tidal volume and frequency, increasing the inspiratory flow rate will lead to a ________ inspiratory time and a _____ expiratory time

Dr orders a RR 28 and an I-time of .6 seconds: calculate the following   (1.5pts, .5pts per answer) TCT= ______________seconds _______ E-time= _________seconds _______ I:E Ratio ____________  _______

The ____ is a measure of the inspiratory muscle strength reflecting the patient’s pulmonary reserve:

When a patient is breathing spontaneously on a SIMV mode with a set RR of 15/min, a mandatory breath occurs at or about every how many seconds?

Which of the following programs using Bayesian statistics to estimate a species tree from many genes?

Here is Bayes’ theorem:  Pr (H|D) = Pr (D|H) x (Pr H).  Write out in words the meaning of Pr (D|H) , and explain what it is equivalent to (e.g., what is another word/phrase to refer to this).

In a Bayesian analysis, a subanalysis that allows the MCMC to make a large leap across tree space (thus avoiding getting stuck in a local optima) is termed:

You are trying to build a phylogeny for several species, so you extract 50-base-pair loci (segments of DNA) from each and create an alignment.  Later you realize the DNA comes from a nuclear chromosome for some of the species, and from the mitochondria for others.  What is the problem with aligning these and using them to infer your phylogeny?